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25 REASONS WHY

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With limited transportation in rural communities, millions of seniors, individuals with disabilities, veterans, and young families lack necessities like health care, groceries, and employment because they cannot drive or afford a vehicle. We are solving mobility problems that have plagued rural communities for decades. Here’s a sampling of 25 realities that have driven us forward in our mission to connect communities.

20% of adults aged 65 or older suffer from isolation, which can have negative health consequences as severe as smoking. Lack of affordable and accessible transportation options is cited as a major contributing factor in this epidemic.

An estimated 25% of low-income patients are forced to miss or reschedule their medical appointments due to a lack of transportation each year. (Journal of Community Health)

Over 30% of Native Americans live in poverty, while remoteness and lack of public transit options make access to employment, medical services, shopping, and education a major challenge. (Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute)

Limitations of existing public transit systems— such as a lack of evening or weekend service— often prevent welfare recipients from obtaining employment, making childcare arrangements, or keeping a job. (Community Transportation Association)

Medical

Among migrant workers, 80% cite a lack of transportation as the primary reason for the last time that their child faced an unmet medical need. (Journal of Community Health)

Households lacking vehicle access and transportation options are more likely to report missed medical appointments, and are less likely to receive critical medical treatments like chemotherapy. (Journal of Community Health)

Veterans

One of the primary barriers to rural veteran healthcare access is long travel distances to the nearestVeterans Affairs (VA) health facility. (Rural Health Information Hub)

About 11% of the adult homeless population are veterans.

(National Coalition for Homeless Veterans)

Nineteen percent of Veterans with colorectal cancer had difficulty with transportation to appointments, and a second study found that 35 % of female Veterans over age 65 had transportation barriers to health care access. (Office of Rural Health)

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